GradleTasksViewPlugin.java

/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2012 Pivotal Software, Inc.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 * Pivotal Software, Inc. - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.springsource.ide.eclipse.gradle.ui.taskview;

import org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.IDialogSettings;
import org.eclipse.jface.resource.ImageDescriptor;
import org.eclipse.ui.plugin.AbstractUIPlugin;
import org.osgi.framework.BundleContext;

/**
 * The activator class controls the plug-in life cycle
 */
public class GradleTasksViewPlugin extends AbstractUIPlugin {

	// The plug-in ID
	public static final String PLUGIN_ID = "org.springsource.ide.eclipse.gradle.ui.taskview"; //$NON-NLS-1$

	// The shared instance
	private static GradleTasksViewPlugin plugin;
	
	/**
	 * The constructor
	 */
	public GradleTasksViewPlugin() {
	}

	/*
	 * (non-Javadoc)
	 * @see org.eclipse.ui.plugin.AbstractUIPlugin#start(org.osgi.framework.BundleContext)
	 */
	public void start(BundleContext context) throws Exception {
		super.start(context);
		plugin = this;
	}

	/*
	 * (non-Javadoc)
	 * @see org.eclipse.ui.plugin.AbstractUIPlugin#stop(org.osgi.framework.BundleContext)
	 */
	public void stop(BundleContext context) throws Exception {
		plugin = null;
		super.stop(context);
	}

	/**
	 * Returns the shared instance
	 *
	 * @return the shared instance
	 */
	public static GradleTasksViewPlugin getDefault() {
		return plugin;
	}

	/**
	 * Returns an image descriptor for the image file at the given
	 * plug-in relative path
	 *
	 * @param path the path
	 * @return the image descriptor
	 */
	public static ImageDescriptor getImageDescriptor(String path) {
		return imageDescriptorFromPlugin(PLUGIN_ID, path);
	}
	
	/**
	 * Returns a section in this plugin's dialog settings. If the section doesn't exist yet, it is created.
	 */
	public IDialogSettings getDialogSettingsSection(String name) {
		IDialogSettings dialogSettings= getDialogSettings();
		IDialogSettings section= dialogSettings.getSection(name);
		if (section == null) {
			section= dialogSettings.addNewSection(name);
		}
		return section;
	}

}